Grant Jones

8.5

Lloyd Banks :: The Course of the Inevitable 2

Grant JonesAugust 2, 2022

Last year’s "Course of the Inevitable" (or COTI) from G-Unit's Lloyd Banks was a pleasant surprise that never tried to be something it wasn’t. It was an hour o... Read More...

LPReview

8.5

DJ Premier :: Hip Hop 50 Vol. 1

Grant JonesJuly 26, 2022

Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Calm down, please. You at the back, whooping and hollering, cut it out! No, this isn’t the long-awaited Nas album we were promised ... Read More...

EPReview

8

Onyx :: 1993

Grant JonesJuly 19, 2022

Hip-hop is absolutely besotted with its past, to the point where there isn’t so much a generational divide but a generational chasm. A group as relentlessly vi... Read More...

LPReview

6

GRIP :: I Died For This!?

Grant JonesJuly 5, 2022

Not to be confused with Rhode Island's Gripp (or the Bay Area's Grip Grand), GRIP is a young emcee from Atlanta who recently rose to prominence after nabbing E... Read More...

LPReview

7

Onyx :: Onyx 4 Life

Grant JonesJune 28, 2022

It’s one thing having a lengthy career as a rapper, another thing entirely doing it for thirty years as intense and ferociously as Onyx has. Fredro Starr and S... Read More...

LPReview

9.5

DJ Yoda :: How to Cut and Paste Mix Tape Vol. 1

Grant JonesJune 21, 2022

The streaming era and rise of self-curation have hurt the profession of DJs immeasurably, and the biggest impact undoubtedly has been turntablist albums. When ... Read More...

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